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| After Obama, Karroubi seeks 'Change' |
| 2009-02-03 |
| Iran's leading Reformist presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi says he will join the upcoming elections with the campaign slogan of "Change." Karroubi, who is among the several candidates officially registered to run in the June presidential election, said on Monday that he intends "to bring about change in Iran's Executive Body." Karroubi's slogan, which brings to mind US President Barack Obama's campaign message of "Change you can believe in", comes at a time when there is wild talk of negotiations with the United States. Regarding the issue of dialogue with the US, the former Iranian parliament speaker said he is in favor of talks. Referring to a letter by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulating President Obama for his victory in the American presidential race, Karroubi said, "the congratulatory message has broken the taboo of negotiations with the United States." "The letter has cleared the way for the start of dialogue with Washington in the framework of foreign policy," he added. President Obama has reportedly been mulling over a response to President Ahmadinejad's letter and has so far drawn up at least three drafts for his Iran message. Washington-Tehran relations were severed in the aftermath of the US embassy takeover in Tehran in 1980. The two countries broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze in May 2007 during the Iraq security talks and have so far held three rounds of negotiations on an ambassadorial level over the issue. America's Obama has vowed to engage Iran in direct diplomacy in order to resolve the country's nuclear dispute. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Wasn't that Khomeini's tag line? |
| Posted by: ed 2009-02-03 13:48 |